From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 11966 invoked by uid 1002); 3 Oct 2003 13:15:42 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 4351 invoked from network); 3 Oct 2003 13:15:42 -0000 Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 22:15:37 +0900 To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Message-ID: <20031003131536.GD12607%chutz@gg3.net> References: <004f01c38950$5177f1b0$8000a8c0@1d36l> <20031003015853.GA7332%chutz@gg3.net> <00f301c38956$517bb380$8000a8c0@1d36l> <20031002211711.41d9210c.cbrewer@stealthaccess.net> <20031003063019.GA11505%chutz@gg3.net> <20031003002045.3ef71d4e.cbrewer@stealthaccess.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="4Ckj6UjgE2iN1+kY" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20031003002045.3ef71d4e.cbrewer@stealthaccess.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i-ja.1 From: Georgi Georgiev Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.80 (Determine) X-Primary-Address: chutz@gg3.net Reply-To: Georgi Georgiev Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] SuSE Kernel Sources X-Archives-Salt: 105f1c74-4ed2-4492-8c08-bd08508479a4 X-Archives-Hash: bf2243d30fc9e3211c3d0f75fe4efd9d --4Ckj6UjgE2iN1+kY Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 03/10/2003 at 00:20:45(-0700), C. Brewer used 1.0K just to say: > True, there were solid suggestions in the bug, but IIRC most of them > revolved around rpm/rpm2cpio, negating the need for rpm2tgz in the first > place. The reason I opened that bug in the first place, is because I didn't want to compile rpm to install icc on a friend's computer. So even though rpm/rpm2c= pio negates the need for rpm2tgz, there is a solid reason why we do need a quic= k, easy, small solution for uncompressing rpms. 1. feature(gzip + bzip2 + rpmoffset) =3D=3D feature(rpm2cpio) 2. size(gzip + bzip2 + rpmoffset) <<<<<< size(rpm2cpio) =3D=3D size(rpm) > Maybe I ( or someone with the time) will work out the hitch in > rpm2tgz. What hitch? We've alrady worked around that hitch. However if you read the = bug correctly -- there was a suggestion for fixing the rpm2tgz package itself, = but Mr.Tse decided to simply fix the rpm.eclass. Which IMHO is a solution good enough as we mostly need to uncompress RPMs in ebuilds. > IMHO its bad enough needing to install rpms in the first place, > without adding the rpm program as well. Just a thought:) It is *not* a bad idea, and here is why: First of all, Gentoo does not "install" rpms. Gentoo doesn't care about dependency information in the rpm, nor does it need to update some freaky database that rpm uses. It only needs the files. So in Gentoo terms -- the = RPM package is just a freaky tarball. Why would I need the rpm package to uncompress that freaky tarball if I can go without it? --=20 \ Georgi Georgiev \ QOTD: "Everything I am today I owe to \ / chutz@gg3.net / people, whom it is now to late to punish." / \ +81(90)6266-1163 \ \ --4Ckj6UjgE2iN1+kY Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/fXZ4fXO2NUT1EmYRAvXXAKCnkvnzzAU6R6vjCbGVNEXrPLDnCgCeL6PF 39oFSZ7/FssaajlDEwoFTqY= =52QP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --4Ckj6UjgE2iN1+kY--